Rex Ryan has filled reporters’ notebooks and been great for sound bytes ever since being hired this year as the head coach of the New York Jets. Free-agent linebacker Bart Scott also did his part.

When the team got off to a winning start, the braggadocio continued. The question now, with the Jets at .500 (4-4), is whether restraint should be the approach when there is losing. Ryan and Scott apparently don’t believe so, judging by some of their comments after they lost to Miami in Week 8 despite the Dolphins totaling just 104 yards on offense.

The war of words began that night on NBC when Tony Dungy reacted to postgame comments by Scott and Ryan.